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Nuclear Biological Chemical Missiles Security Council Resolution 1540 Chemical and Biological Weapons Use Investigations Measures to Prevent Terrorists From Acquiring WMD
Arms Trade Small Arms Ammunition Improvised Explosive Devices Explosive weapons in populated areas Landmines Cluster Munitions Depleted Uranium UN Register of Conventional Arms Military Spending UNSCAR Trust Fund
Regional Disarmament Overview Disarmament Field Activities Inter-Agency Coordination Improvised Explosive Devices Resolutions of Regional Disarmament SG Reports UN Regional Centers for Peace and Disarmament
Confidence-building Measures UN Register of Conventional Arms Military Spending Outer Space
Conference on MENWMDFZ Counter-Terrorism Strategy Disarmament and development Disarmament Education Disarmament and Youth Environmental Norms Gender Perspectives International ICT-Security Multilateralism Outer Space Science and Technology Special Sessions on Disarmament

EVENTS

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August 12 - 15, 2019

Basseterre, St. Kitts

Round table meeting on forensic ballistics

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August 26 - 30, 2019

Geneva, Switzerland

Fifth Conference of States Parties to the ATT (CSP5)

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August 26 - September 6, 2019

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Working Group B, 53rd session

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August 28 - 29, 2019

Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Seminar on “Fostering cooperation and enhancing consultation mechanisms among the existing nuclear-weapon-free zones”

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August 29 - 29, 2019

Worldwide

International Day Against Nuclear Tests

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September 9 - 11, 2019

Vienna, Austria

UNODC: Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Working Group of Government Experts on Technical Assistance, 12th session (tent.)

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September 9 - 13, 2019

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors

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September 9 - 12, 2019

Georgetown, Guyana

Round table meeting on forensic ballistics

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September 9 - 13, 2019

New York

First substantive session of the Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of ICTs in the context of international security

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September 10 - 11, 2019

Vienna, Austria

UNODC: Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Working Group on Trafficking in Persons, 9th session

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September 11 - November 13, 2018

Vienna, Austria

UNODC: Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Working Group on International Cooperation, 11th session (tent.)

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September 11 - 13, 2019

Vienna, Austria

UNODC: Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Working Group on the Smuggling of Migrants, 6th session

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September 16 - 20, 2019

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: General Conference, 63rd session

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September 18 - 18, 2019

Geneva, Switzerland

Preparatory Meeting for Fourth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Antipersonnel Mine Ban Convention

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September 23 - 23, 2019

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors

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September 25, 2019

New York

Eleventh Conference on Facilitating Entry into Force of the CTBT

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September 26 - 26, 2019

Worldwide

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

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September 30 - October 4, 2019

Bangkok, Thailand

Southeast Asia Regional MOSAIC/IATG Training to develop national action plans to address illegal flows of SALW and conventional ammunition

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October 7 - 10, 2019

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Advisory Group, 53rd session

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October 7 - November 8, 2019

New York

GA 74 – First Committee

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October 28 - 30, 2019

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Working Group A, 56th session

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November 4 - 8, 2019

Bridgetown, Barbados

Interdiction course on firearms and ammunition, parts and components

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November 12 - 15, 2019

Suva, Fiji

Workshop for Pacific Island States on Gun Violence and Illicit Small-Arms Trafficking from a Gender Perspective

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November 18 - 22, 2019

New York

Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

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November 18 - 20, 2019

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors: Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee

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November 18 - 22, 2019

UN Headquarters, New York

Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

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November 21 - 22, 2019

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors

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November 25 - 27, 2019

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Preparatory Commission, 53rd session

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November 25 - 29, 2019

The Hague, The Netherlands

Twenty-Fourth Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention

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November 25 - 29, 2019

Oslo, Norway

Fourth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Antipersonnel Mine Ban Convention

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December 3 - 6, 2019

Geneva, Switzerland

BWC Meeting of States Parties

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December 5 - 6, 2019

New York

Two-day informal consultations ahead of the Group of Governmental Experts on advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace in the context of international security

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December 9 - 13, 2019

New York

First Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace in the context of international security

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January 13 - 17, 2020

New York

Group of Governmental Experts on “Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus”( Session 1)

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January 13 - 15, 2020

Conference on UNSCR 1540 – Planning for 2021 and beyond

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January 16, 2020

Vienna, Austria

OOSA: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Briefing to Permanent Missions the Scientific and Technical Sub-Committee, 57th session (p.m.)

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January 20 - March 27, 2020

Algeria (20 Jan- 14 February), Argentina (17 Feb- 13 March), Australia (16 March- 5 June).

Conference on Disarmament Part I

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January 29 - 31, 2020

Geneva

Thematic seminar on pillar I (disarmament) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in preparation for the 2020 NPT Review Conference

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February 3 - 14, 2020

Vienna, Austria

OOSA: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Scientific and Technical Sub-committee, 57th session

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February 4 - 7, 2020

Room V, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Working Group meetings and 1st CSP6 Informal Preparatory Meeting

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February 4 - 7, 2020

Room V, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Arms Trade Treaty Working Group meetings and 1st CSP6 Informal Preparatory Meeting

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February 10 - 14, 2020

Vienna, Austria

International Conference on Nuclear Security: Sustaining and Strengthening Efforts, IAEA

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February 12 - 13, 2020

Dili, Timor-Leste

Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support Timor-Leste in the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on SALW and the ATT: Final Briefing Visit

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February 17 - 28, 2020

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Working Group B, 54th session* (tent.)

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February 17 - 19, 2020

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support Sri Lanka in the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on SALW: Assessment Visit

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February 24 - 28, 2020

Hiroshima Japan

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Training for MFA and MoD representatives from Asian States, Jointly with UNITAR Hiroshima

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February 25 - 27, 2020

Workshop for selected CARICOM Countries on the Universalization of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT), the Convention for the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and its 2005 Amendment

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March 4 - 6, 2020

Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Asia-Pacific Seminar on Gun Violence and Illicit Small-Arms Trafficking from a Gender Perspective

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March 5, 2020

Vienna, Austria

OOSA: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Briefing to Permanent Missions on the Legal Subcommittee, 59th session (p.m.)

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March 9 - 13, 2020

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors

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March 10 - 13, 2020

The Hague

Ninety-Third Session of the OPCW Executive Council

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March 26 - 26, 2020

45th anniversary of the entry into force of the BWC

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April 6 - 24, 2020

New York

The substantive session of the United Nations Disarmament Commission ( Postponed to 2021 )

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April 14 - 17, 2020

WMO Building, Geneva

Working Group meetings and 2nd CSP6 Informal Preparatory Meeting ( Cancelled )

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April 14 - 17, 2020

WMO Building, Geneva

Arms Trade Treaty Working Group meetings and 2nd CSP6 Informal Preparatory Meeting (Cancelled)

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April 20 - 24, 2020

Virtual - Informal Sessions

Group of Governmental Experts on “Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus”( Informal virtual sessions )

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April 24 - 24, 2020

New York

Fourth Conference of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia (postponed to a period in 2021 to be decided by the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session)

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April 27 - May 22, 2020

New York

Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (postponed to a later date, as soon as the circumstances permit, but no later than April 2021)

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May 4 - 8, 2020

Vienna, Austria

UNODA-OSCE Scholarship for Peace and Security: In-person course ( Postponed )

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May 4 - 6, 2020

(Virtual) Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors: Programme Budget Committee*

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May 11 - 15, 2020

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Advisory Group, 54th session* (tent.)

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May 19 - 21, 2020

Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Seminar to Support the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) in South Asia ( Postponed )

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May 26 - July 10, 2020

Virtual

Conference on Disarmament Part II. Presidency of the CD will be: Australia (16 March- 5 June), Austria (8 June- 3 July), Bangladesh (6 July- 21 August).

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May 27 - 29, 2020

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support Sri Lanka in the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on SALW: Final Briefing Visit ( TBD )

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June 1 - 3, 2020

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Working Group A, 57th session* (tent.)

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June 3 - 6, 2020

Vienna, Austria

Austrian Government: Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, 19th Regular Meeting*

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June 3 - 3, 2020

(Virtual) Vienna, Austria

Virtual Briefing for States members of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

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June 15 - 19, 2020

Seventh Biennial Meeting of States on the Programme of Action

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June 15 - 25, 2020

Virtual Meeting

74th Session of the Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. (Actual meeting dates – 15, 19, 24, 25 June 2020)

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June 15 - 19, 2020

(Virtual) Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors*

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June 17 - 26, 2020

Vienna, Austria

OOSA: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, 63rd session (Postponed)

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June 22 - 26, 2020

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons related to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Dates changed to Monday- Friday, 21-25 September 2020

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June 22 - 26, 2020

Virtual Meeting

Responsible Innovation Virtual Workshops with students from Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, and Singapore University of Technology and Design, under the Responsible Innovation for a Secure Environment in Asia and the Pacific (RISE-AP) project

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June 25 - 26, 2020

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Preparatory Commission, 54th session*

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June 29 - 29, 2020

First Preparatory Meeting of the Second Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

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June 30 - July 1, 2020

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bangladesh national interagency roundtable meeting to support implementation of UNSCR 1540 (2004)- (TBD)

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July 6 - 10, 2020

New York

Final Substantive Session of the Open-ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (Postponed)

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July 6 - 8, 2020

Dili, Timor-Leste

In-country training programme in support of gender mainstreamed policy on small arms control: First round scheduled ( TBD )

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July 7 - 10, 2020

The Hague

Ninety-Fourth-Session of the OPCW Executive Council

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July 20 - 24, 2020

New York

Group of Governmental Experts on “Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus” (Postponed)

August 8, 2020

Today

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August 10 - 14, 2020

Postponed

Group of Governmental Experts on emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (GGE LAWS) of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) – Session 1

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August 17 - 21, 2020

CICG, Geneva

Sixth Conference of States Parties to the ATT (CSP6)

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August 17 - 21, 2020

Through written procedure

Sixth Conference on States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty

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August 17 - 21, 2020

Geneva

Third Substantive Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace in the Context of International Security

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August 25 - September 3, 2020

Meetings of Experts of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (‘Biological Weapons Convention’)

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August 29 - 29, 2020

International Day Against Nuclear Tests ( TBD )

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September 1 - 30, 2020

New York

Tenth Ministerial Meeting of the Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) – TBD

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September 4 - 4, 2020

Second Preparatory Meeting of the Second Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

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September 21 - 25, 2020

Geneva

Group of Governmental Experts on emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (GGE LAWS) of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) – Session 2

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September 26 - 26, 2020

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

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September 28 - 28, 2020

Meeting of Experts of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

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September 29 - 30, 2020

Group of Experts of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

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October 2 - 2, 2020

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ( TBD )

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October 6 - 9, 2020

The Hague

Ninety-Fifth-Session of the OPCW Executive Council

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October 28 - 30, 2020

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Working Group A, 58th session* (tent.)

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November 1 - 30, 2020

The Hague (TBC)

Twenty-Fifth Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention

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November 9 - 9, 2020

Fourteenth Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

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November 10 - 10, 2020

World Science Day for Peace and Development

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November 10 - 10, 2020

Twenty-second Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

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November 11 - 13, 2020

Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

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November 16 - 20, 2020

Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction

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November 16 - 20, 2020

New York

Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction. (Second Session)

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November 16 - 18, 2020

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors: Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee*

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November 19 - 20, 2020

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors: Programme Budget Committee (closed meeting )

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November 19 - 20, 2020

Vienna, Austria

IAEA: Board of Governors*

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November 23 - 27, 2020

Second Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

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November 25 - 27, 2020

Vienna, Austria

CTBTO: Preparatory Commission, 55th session ( closed meeting, tent. )

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November 30 - December 4, 2020

The Hague

Twenty-Fifth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention

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December 8 - 11, 2020

Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

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January 1 - December 31, 2020

Fourth Conference on Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia – postponed to a period in 2021 to be decided by the General Assembly at its 75th Session

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May 20 - 21, 2021

New York

Informal Consultative Meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace in the Context of International Security with all UN Member States

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May 24 - 29, 2021

New York

Final Substantive Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace in the Context of International Security

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